How to pronounce “hell”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (countable, hyperbolic, figuratively) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
• (countable) A place for gambling.
• (figuratively) An extremely hot place.
• (sometimes vulgar) Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
• (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.
• In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
• (colloquial, usually with on) Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
• [Interjection]
• Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.
• (no longer productive) Used to emphasize.
• Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.
• [Adverb]
• (postpositional) Alternative form of the hell or like hell.
• (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) Very; used to emphasize strongly.
• [Verb]
• To make hellish; to place (someone) in hell; to make (a place) into a hell. [from 17th c.]
• To hurry, rush. [from 19th c.]
• (intransitive) To move quickly and loudly; to raise hell as part of motion.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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